- clown, buffoon - a rude or vulgar fool
--1 is a kind of fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool
--1 has particulars: Pantaloon - clown, buffoon, merry andrew - a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior
--2 is a kind of comedian, comic
--2 has particulars:harlequin; jester, fool, motley fool; whiteface; zany; Kelly, Emmett Kelly, Weary Willie